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Sunday, 26 February 2017

Allegation of ‘Controversial Court Order’ Rocking Ogun PDP

An emerging development coming in different direction in the
leadership tussle of Ogun State
chapter's People Democratic Party (PDP), between two factions of the
party loyal to Senator Ahmed Makarfi and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has sprang up taking another turn of varying controversial court order in the state of ogun.

Senator Buruji Kashamu’s faction,
led by Chief Bayo Dayo, is for Sheriff, while the other faction, led by
Sikirulai Ogundele, belongs to the Markafi faction.

An allegation of a “controversial court
order”, got by the Kashamu’s faction against its rival group in respect of suit
FHC/L/CS/636/2016, is currently swinging the pendulum of the party’s direction into disarray .

In a motion on notice for committal
for contempt in application dated September 9, 2016, and filed by Kashamu’s
group before Justice I.N Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos, an interim
order against Ogundele and other alleged contemnors is alleged to have been
made.

Ogundele, the first alleged
contemnor, said he was not served personally as required by law, but only saw a
motion ex parte to serve him by substituted means and consequently informed his
lawyer to enter an appearance for him.

He explained that his counsel,
Ogochukwu Emeti, informed him that the applicant’s lawyer, Mrs Ifeoma Esom,
told the court on January 19, 2017, that she was withdrawing the application
dated September 9, 2016, for a fresh one dated January 16, 2017, and expressed
readiness to move same, having served the defendants’ counsel.

The PDP chairman said the
application for contempt motion was never moved and efforts by the applicant’s
lawyer to made the Judge see reason why it should be heard did not yield any
result. Proceedings for the day were consequently brought to a close and the
matter adjourned to February 28, for the
application to be moved and heard.

“Surprisingly, I received a call
from Dr Yemi Oke, that an interim order was granted by Justice Buba on January
19, 2017, when the matter came up.

“I was confused when I read the
said interim order and saw that the order granted reliefs 2-6 based on the
argument of the motion by the plaintiff’s counsel,” Ogundele said.

Arrest of Ogundele and others and
closing down the party’s secretariat by police were among the reliefs
purportedly granted by Justice Buba in the interim order, a copy of which was
made available to Sunday journalists.

Urban Express news online gathered
that the Ogun State Police Command had been served with a copy of the purported
order to give effect to the prayers granted by the court.

“This development is worrisome and
shocking because my lawyer was in court till the end of the matter and the said
motion on notice was never moved in the open court. She was not asked for her
reaction to any interim order and the order was not read in the open court,”
Ogundele said.